CANDIDATES AND CHANCES
on party lines. Rising costs are chafing a great many people, but it does not appear that the implications of Socialism are understood by the masses yet.
Mr. Savage's good-will tour of Canterbury was expected to give a line on the feeling of the country. His reception in the grain-growing belt of Mid-Canterbury was cordial, for great irrigation works are in hand, and the farmer is duly grateful for cheap water. Yet at Waimate, further south, the man who got the best reception was not the Prime Minister, but the Nationalist who was narrowly beaten by Labour at the last election, Mr. John Bitchener. In Mr. Forbes's district, Hurunui, Mr. Savage had a very courteous hearing, but his candidate, Mr. H. E. Denton, must poll very lightly. He is a resident of Christchurch, and was selected over the head of a much more likely candidate, a successful farmer in the district
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 73, 23 September 1938, Page 10
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